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The catechizing of families a teacher of householders how to teach their householdsThe catechizing of families a teacher of housholders how to teach their housholds
The catechizing of families a teacher of householders how to teach their households : useful also to school-masters and tutors of youth : for those that are past the common small catechisms [sic], and would grow to a more rooted faith, and to the fuller understanding of all that is commonly needful to a safe, holy comfortable and profitable life / written by Richard Baxter ...The catechizing of families a teacher of housholders how to teach their housholds : useful also to school-masters and tutors of youth : for those that are past the common small chatechisms [sic], and would grow to a more rooted faith, and to the fuller understanding of all that is commonly needful to a safe, holy comfortable and profitable life / written by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed for T. Parkhurst, 1683
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Q. 7. What is meant by the words [which art i• Heaven?]
A. They signify, I. God's real Substantiality: He is existent.
A. They signifie, I. God's real Substantiality: He is existent.
II. God's incomprehensible Perfection in Power, Knowledge, and Goodness, and so his absolute sufficiency and fitness to hear and help us. 1. The vastness, Sublimity and Glory of the Heavens, tell us that▪ He who Reigneth there over all the World, must needs be Omnipotent, and want no power to do his will, and help us in our need.
2. The Glory and Sublimity, tell us that he that is there above the Sun which shineth upon all the Earth, doth behold all Creatures, and see all the ways of the Sons of Men, and therefore knoweth all our Sins, Wants and Dangers, and heareth all our Prayers.
2. The Glory and Sublimity, tell us that he that is there above the Sun which shineth upon all the Earth, doth behold all Creatures, and see all the wayes of the Sons of Men, and therefore knoweth all our Sins, Wants and Dangers, and heareth all our Prayers.